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Ms. Friedman

Laurie Friedman

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Strategic Business Consulting

Laurie Friedman is founder and CEO of Strategic Business Consulting, an independent consulting firm in Bethesda, Maryland. SBC provides both strategic and tactical tools to enhance leadership development and improve organization, team, and individual performance. Ms. Friedman holds a Master's Degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from The George Washington University and she is a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator, DISC and Action Learning facilitator.

Ms. Friedman is a certified executive coach, change strategist and business consultant with over a decade of experience working with organizations to design and develop results-focused strategies to improve business results. Her clients have included senior level executives to line managers from diverse organizations including numerous non-profits.

Ms. Friedman is a results-focused business coach, trainer and facilitator with a proven track record. She is known for effectively partnering with C-level executives to improve personal effectiveness and team alignment. She incorporates a high-touch, targeted, facilitative approach to leadership development training, business coaching, change strategies, and strategic thinking. Ms. Friedman has designed, developed and delivered dozens of high impact leadership development programs from new supervisor training to creative leadership, conflict management and team-building workshops. In 2015 Ms. Friedman was awarded the Sherpa Coach of the Year award in recognition of mastery and advancement of Sherpa Coaching. (www.sherpacoaching.com).

Her work on compassionate leadership has led her to develop tools and strategies to help leaders learn to not take things personally and have a more positive attitude at work.

Please visit http://sbcstrategy.com for more information.

Ms. Friedman can be contacted at +1 301-320-3960 or [email protected]